Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition: Ultrabook with Ubuntu

With the Developer Edition brings Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook one for developers to market. The operating system is Ubuntu's free to use.

As Ars Technica reports, Dell latitude d810 battery has in the United States launched a new Ultrabook on the market. Special feature: The Ubuntu Linux distribution to replace the XPS 13 Developer Edition, the Windows operating system. The housing of the device consists of carbon and aluminum. Inside potter a "Core i7" processor from Intel and eight gigabytes of memory. Data back up to the 256-gigabyte SSD storage. The 13.3-inch display dissolves with 1366x768 pixels. Corning Gorilla Glass to protect it from scratches.

As the name suggests, the device is particularly suitable for developers. For this reason, Dell latitude e4200 battery expanded the Ubuntu version 12.04LTS to various software packages and tools. In the U.S., the XPS 13 is available immediately from Developer Edition for 1449 U.S. dollars. Beginning of 2013, the Ultrabook come on the market in Germany.

Dell w953g 's internal work on the so-called Sputnik project is bearing fruit: Along with Ubuntu developer Canonical presents the U.S. computer manufacturer a Linux Ultrabook, which will be marketed under the official name "Dell XPS 13Developer Edition". The device differs from the known optically non-Windows variant and is available in a single powerful configuration, including the operating system Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

The Developer Edition of the XPS 13 has the same 13.3-inch display with a resolution of 1,366 x 768 pixels as it has during the Windows model was used. Under the hood Dell gp952 grabs an Intel Ultrabook processor type Core i7-3517U, which has one base clock of 1.9 GHz and a maximum turbo frequency of 3.0 gigahertz. The CPU to the side are 8 gigabytes of memory and a 256-gigabyte SSD, for the image display to the internal graphics unit of the Intel CPU (HD Graphics 4000) is responsible.

When pre-installed operating system Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is a version of the distribution that can score with long-term support from Canonical. In addition to Dell p5413 's Linux Ultrabook a set of developer tools are immediately available. This includes some of the cloud services integrator called Juju, which can be over 100 services like WordPress or the Java framework include in your project. Or jointly developed software tools from Dell and Canonical, who are currently still in beta, but will be provided to developers for testing.

Dell offers the 1.36 kg heavy and 18 millimeters thick Developer Edition of the XPS 13 and Dell xps 17 battery at the time being only in the U.S. and Canada. A publication on the European market is also provided. The selling price currently amounts to 1,449 U.S. dollars.